NFL Team Reports: AFC North

Die hard Steeler fan here who lives with a die hard Browns fan. Hey I love my team but geez they can't be good every year! Actually glad the Browns started showing some life there at the end. Now maybe next season if the Browns have a good season (is that really possible???) the Steelers beating them will actually mean something!! Super bown prediction: Dallas vs Chargers or Vikes vs Chargers. Hope the Colts, Cincy, New Orleans all go down in flames for laying down the last two games. DISGRACEFUL TO THE GAME OF FOOTBALL!!

Doesn't it feel good that the Browns knocked the aqueelers OUT of the playoffs this year ? Go Brownies !

Looks like age has finally caught up with the team. Some glaring holes were exposed that have to be repaired. Gay gotta go, we can't allow opposing QB's the idea of salivating at looking in his direction. Carter is poor replacement for Troy, but then again, who wouldn't be? Taylor looks like an ego tripper, he's not what he thinks he is. Using Clark's terminology, he's the turd in the secondary. Sometimes those thinggies just look bad, and sometimes they smell bad, and sometimes they are both. Big snack is nothing more than an expensive part-timer, he gotta go. Farrior can't cover the young bucks anymore, what will he be next year, 36? Maybe we start seeing the 4-3 next year on a regular basis. That is just the Defense. The O-line has issues out the rear-end also. It would be nice to see a return to a running game to help the Defense in the fourth quarter, some thing to control the clock. Scoring so fast has it's downfall in that the Defense is exposed. How many games were lost while holding a lead in the fourth quarter. We need a good Fullback, one who can block as well as run and catch passes. I know, Christmas has just passed, but maybe we could get Christmas in April via the draft, and\or Free Agency. Logan gotta go, need to try someone else as a return man. Special teams coach should already have another job interview lined up, as he has to be history. They looked like they were in over their head on Special Teams. Opponents always starting on the 35+ yard line, and we are lucky to start on the 20 yard line, give me a break. We need a man that can kick off. Maybe they can get somebody to be the long snapper that is already on the team to free up one more slot. I guess now we will see what Mr. Tomlin is made of. Hope there are no more camp cup-cakes! It was good while it lasted, but now it is rebuilding time, thanks fer the memories. With Ben and company, maybe the process won't be that long. Just my 2 cents.

249. Posted by TobyK Tue Dec 22 2:57pm EST

There is always some nin-com-poop that brings into a modern era NFL discussion crap that happened in the 1920s. It just isn't relevant.

Six is six in the modern NFL; Hands down.

Having said that I'd have like to have seen the Steelers deal with the injuries better. They have always been know for having a guy ready to fill in for an injured player. This year that didn't happen.

Whether Polamalu or anyone else plays shouldn't decide the outcome of a game and for the Steelers this year it did..

haters lick sacks, I mean six!

Hey die-hard steelers fan you suck and so does your team when you guys lose ben cries. You guys are a bunch of babies and can't even support you own division. You Guys suck

Die hard Steeler fan here- You bested us THIS year Cincy! We can't do it EVERY year. Congrats on winning the division. PLEASE, do us all a favor:
............DON'T EMBARRASSE YOURSELVES OR OUR DIVISION IN THE PLAYOFFS............Somehow you always manage to do it. We know you are not used to having a winning season, much less make the playoffs. This is a new endeavor for you. Just don't get stupid! Good luck!

P.S. By the way- I won't be pulling for you- Go Bolts

squeeler fans are towel waving idiots!!!!!!

whiney hiney ward, the dirty player, and rottenberger, the raper, boy, what standout idiots for the *hitspuke squeelers. stick those six rings where the sun don't shine. your coach is an idiot. I bet art rooney is rolling in his grave about the state of affairs in squeeler town.

oMG!!!! I hate Stealers fans. You guys are all Johnny Onenote, 6 rings, rings, Big Fing deal!! what have you done recently. You want people to relive the Steelrs past,ya gotta love Bradshaw and Stallworth and Franco and the steel curtain. The Stealers od today couldn't carry those guys jock straps. Hines will never ne a Swan and he knows it. Get a new tune. Ravens kicked your boys butts twice but we can't beat the refs. The team is okay,it;s you fans that really SUCK!!!!!!! if 6 is all you have to say,call your Mamas and tell them.Nobody else gives a flying f###!!!

rmoneymm.
To even suggest that you saw far more Clevland apparel "by far" than any other team proves one of three things: 1. Your dillusional. 2. You are so used to seeing other team apparel that you don't even notice it anymore. 3. Your lying.
Did you actually think that ANYONE would believe that? Hello, welcome back to reality.

263. Posted by gary c Thu Dec 31 10:11am EST
First of all if you aren't a Steelers fan you aren't S H I T.

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Um, does that mean that if you are a Steelers fan, you are S.H.I.T?

First of all if you aren't a Steelers fan you aren't S H I T. Second watch how the Bungals and un Patriots take the big fall because EVERY team in the N F L FEARS the STEELERS. So whine all you want you only wish your teams were as successfull as the STEELERS. May i offer you whinners a towl to cry into, and no you do not even come close to the one and onlyTerrible towl. To all of the Brown Clown fans remember when you had no team and who you rooted for yea thats right the Stillers. And post 262 you were one of them,ha ha ha ha you win one game every six years and what. Come back the Steelers nation will welcome you, so get out of that closet free yourselfs.

Hey Ron, I am a Cleveland Fan in Denver and I wear my Cleveland gear year around as do a lot of Cleveland fans not in Cleveland. The fact that Cleveland was trying to make a point about mismanagement of the team may have something to do with the tickets not being sold out and people not wearing their gear. I think the steps Learner has made recently has shown that maybe he is willing to do whatever it takes to bring a winning team back to Cleveland and I think that, more than the fact they have won 3 in a row, is the reason people are bringing their gear back out of the closet. Now I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago to watch the Browns humiliate the Squeelers and in Vegas I saw more Cleveland gear than any other NFL team by far. Not all of us have lost faith in our team, I for one made a good chunk of change, betting on Cleveland to beat the Steelers! I must admit I didn't have enough guts to bet on the money line but just like the team I am taking baby steps =)

During the slide this year I heard all kinds of suggestions from Steeler fans - everything from benching Big Ben to firing the coach. You're not really good with adversity, but when they're winning, anyone listening to you would believe you started at tight end. What a load of hooey.

The big coffee table book "75 Years of the NFL" must be a misprint since the NFL didn't exist before Roman Numerals, right? And the other teams in the division are 'not important to me'. So who do the Steelers play on Sunday? Themselves?

Some would say they've been doing that all year.

Hey Drizzle,
You're right. This is the Super Bowl era. With 32 watered down teams where just about any starting D1 player can make it. To wit, 10th round players becoming pro-bowlers. Back in the day, there were no play-offs. You win your conference and play for the championship. No chance to back in. So any team with a significant number of championships before the SB should be considered before the Steelers. BTW, Steeler stats show 6 winning seasons from 1933 to 1971. Real powerhouse those Steelers. :)

TeeDawg Your Browniees are BURNT!! As the stupid Dawg that you are keep, eatin those BURNT Browniees and return to your VOMIT like a Dawg does!!!

The AFC North might have 3 teams make the playoffs, an amazing accomplishment. Now, if the Steelers would just stop acting like a run-and-shoot team with a pass-only offense and a @#$% defense, they might still make something out of the year.

TobyK - Glad you can research games that were played before Helmets, forward passing, non -white players, and TVs, but we live in the SUPER BOWL ERA! Steelers 6, everybody else is behind! Thanks for the research though!!!

Go Ben Gals(beat the Jets)
Go Gaytriots(beat the Texans)

STEELERS FA LIFE!

Hey Teedog -

I live in Cle and let me tell you it is night and day between the Pgh and Cle fan bases. Go walk around town in Pgh anytime of the year and you won't have to look more than 5 seconds to find someone wearing Steeler gear - men, women, children, grandparents - they all wear Steeler stuff 365 days a year. Now, here in Cle, until the Clowns finally won a couple games in a row, I could go days without seeing any Browns gear on anyone - even during the heart of football season. A few "fans" now have pulled out their ratty old sweatshirts that they haven't worn for years but the fanbase is a joke. And prior to the past couple of weeks when the bandwagoners have resurfaced, you could see more Steeler gear here in Cleveland than Browns gear. It's hilarious.

Also, how is it that the Steelers have soldout upteen years in a row and the Clowns have to have businesses buy up thousands of unsold tickets at the last second to avoid a blackout? Do you watch the "away" games that the Steelers play? There's no such thing because no matter where the Steelers play, there will be thousands of the die-hard fans waving towels and making it look like a semi-home game.

You might be pretty accurate about the Steelers problems this year (though I'd take Big Ben over Peyton any day), however, you're way off about the fans who are almost all die-hard types. Ask a Browns "fan" who they can name on their team, and they will be stumped after Cribbs and Quinn.

oh my go bengle girls..You will get knock out of the playoffs ...for shure...llmao

@ Joshua H

Welcome to the winner's table and a taste of what Steelers fans deal with year in and year out. Good luck to Cincinnati, buuttt
GO STEELERS!!!!!!

I'd also like to note that the Bengals pulled off a 98 yard game winning drive in that "unimpressive win." Yeesh.

"The Bengals, who captured the AFC North title with an unimpressive win over visiting Kansas City, are staggering into the playoffs"

Unimpressive win? I was under the impression that in the NFL a win is a win is a win. They beat a team that the Steelers couldn't get past. Let's also forget that the low scoring games are by design. Very few of the Bengals wins this season have gone past the 20 point mark. Why does it matter now?

Pittsburgh is still alive going into week seventeen. Considering their mid-season swoon, I'll take it.

GO STEELERS!!!!!!